… a wealth of information means a death of something else - a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. (Herb Simon)
Simone Weil (source: a podcast from philosophize this!)
Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. — Simone Weil
Hyperattention - coned by Byung-Chul Han (The Burnout Society), describes fragmented attention when one is bombared by multiple stimuli and involves “a rash change of focus between different tasks, sources of information, and processes”, where perception becomes “fragmented and scattered.”
This reminds of the roles micro-switching idea, initially heard from the Mina Lee video.